SR's 'proof' comes from a 1908 newspaper cutting he found in Trove. SR is now relying on attitudes from 112 years ago to support his anti-Australian venom.

So ...... are some surnames to be made illegal now ? Or anything that sounds vaguely like them ? Cohn, Coen, Cohen, Kohn, Kahn (a common surname for Aboriginal people here in SA), Kun, Coin ?

How about Badcock, Lipschitz, Slattery (too close to 'sluttery'?), Blackmore, or more outright masculinist names like Mann ?

Hyper-'left' vigilante disappears, over the hill, in full pursuit.

I wonder if the world is actually full of witches, unseen but there, and only a select few amongst us are aware of them, and how they must be rooted out ruthlessly for the good of all humankind ? [Oops, I nearly wrote 'mankind' and got myself added to that list.].

I suppose every revolution needs its executioners. I was just reading that Robespierre ordered the execution of 18,000 people on one day. Just before he was executed.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so peaceful and self-contained .....

Joe

Well thank you SR, for proving the point. If you have to go back to 1908, before any person alive today was born to find an example, it sure as hell is not something of any importance to any reasonable person. Such a common example of racism in Oz today, virtually proves it has no context here today.

Of course your silliness is supported by none other than another hairsplitter in Alan.

Would it be lovely to live in a country where such stupidity was long gone. Pity outs still has too many examples.

Yee commenters of deficient research, please note:

Coon cheese has no racial background:

"Coon cheese is named after its American creator, Edward William Coon

(1871–1934) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning

process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity."

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_cheese

Of course Don emulated my subsequent research in his article.

I stand on my post hoc :)

Cheers

Pete

Dear Hasbeen,

How's it going old cock?

I thought you might have at least been a teenager in 1908 given the serious load of curmudgeon you tote around nowadays but perhaps not.

Mr Aitken proclaimed he had never seen the word in print in Australia. I furnished an example. Following are two articles where used far more recently and I wager well within you lifetime.

Bulletin 1972

AUSTRALIAN   COON   HATERS  
  I   agree   on   the   whole   with   the   political  
  conclusions   of   Bob   Hawkins’   article   on  
  Papua   New   Guinea   (B,   May   13).   But   I  
  must   strongly   disagree   with   the   rosy  
  “The   air   pollution   got   him   before   he   could   jump."  
  picture   he   paints   of   “human   .   .   .   work  
  ing   relationships   with   Papuans   and   New  
  i   Guineans”   which   Australians   working  
  in   this   country   are   said   to   have  
  achieved.   Assuming   this   refers   to   both  
  administration   and   private   business  
  personnel,   it   has   been   my   experience  
  that   too   many   Australians   fall   into   the  
  type   regularly   known   as   the   “coon-hat  
  er.”   They   have   lived   and   worked   in   this  
  country   often   for   years,   but   are   still  
  alienated   from   their   surroundings.   They  
  make   no   attempt   to   understand   the  
  problems   of   the   country   and   either   fear  
  or   despise   the   indigenous   population.  
  This   attitude   leads   to   both   open   and  
  covert   racial   discrimination   and   some  
  times   open   abuse.   I   have   personally   met  
  with   discriminatory   instances   in   Lae.  
  This   does   not   mean,   of   course,   that  
  there   are   not   Australians   who   do   their  
  jobs   with   skill,   compassion,   understand  
  ing   and   liking   for   the   people.   But   the  
  good   relationships   which   these   expatri  
  ates   develop   is   too   often   counteracted  
  by   the   Territorian   who   refers   to   his  
  workers   as   “rock   apes”   or   “kanakas”   and  
  treats   them   as   “idle,   useless   blacks.”  
  The   solid   amount   of   goodwill   Aus  
  tralia   is   supposed   to   enjoy   in   Papua  
  New   Guinea   is   being   dissipated   by   this  
  all   to   prevalent   attitude.   It   will   ulti  
  mately   be   reponsible   for   anti-European  
  feeling.   This   may   surprise   the   optimists  
  who   are   not   aware   of   the   increasing  
  racial   tension   in   all   areas   of   Papua   New  
  Guinea.  
  JANE   HUTCHINS  
  Lae,   TPNG